During the Spring of 2026, we are filming our short fashion film. The film follows a conceptual fashion collection that explores the fragmentation and reconstruction of women’s intellectual and cultural histories. Inspired by the legacy of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the broader silencing of women during the Baroque period, the project examines how knowledge, identity, and voice have historically been distorted.

A Note from Designer:

What if history didn’t disappear, but lived on through our bodies?

My name is Lucero Ibarra Flores I am a senior at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Currently working on Unspoken Paradise: The Mystery of History, my senior thesis fashion collection that travels back to the Baroque era, an age of beauty, excess, and control, to confront how women’s voices were silenced by religion and society. Through fashion, I reclaim what once confined women and transform it into a statement of rebellion, resilience, and change bridging the past with modern womanhood.

Your support will directly fund the production of the film of this collection. Every contribution helps transform academic research and personal narrative into a tangible body of work that honors women’s histories while advocating for change.

The Baroque period existed within a framework where women were expected to be silent, obedient, and morally restrained. Religion and social hierarchy dictated how women existed in public and private spaces. The female body became a site of regulation and symbolism, often stripped of agency while being aesthetically idealized. Through exaggerated silhouettes, constrictive garments, and heavy ornamentation, women were visually celebrated yet socially confined.

Unspoken Paradise revisits these historical constraints and brings them into conversation with the present. The collection reinterprets Baroque-inspired elements through a modern lens. Rather than reinforcing limitation, these garments reclaim control. What once symbolized oppression becomes a tool for empowerment. The collection imagines contemporary women confronting inherited expectations and reshaping them into expressions of autonomy.

As a Mexican woman designer, this project carries deep personal and cultural significance. Latin American history, particularly under colonial and religious influence, has long shaped narratives around womanhood. By addressing these themes through fashion, I am not only engaging with European history but also questioning how these ideologies traveled, endured, and continue to affect women today especially women of color.

Creating this collection is an act of visibility. It is about breaking barriers within an industry that has historically marginalized women, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds. By speaking on women’s oppression I aim to contribute to a broader dialogue that empowers current and future generations to challenge inherited systems rather than accept them as fixed truths.

This project matters because fashion is not just aesthetic it is cultural and historical. Clothing has always communicated power. Unspoken Paradise uses fashion as a medium to question the past, confront the present, and imagine a future where womanhood is defined by choice rather than constraint.

Thank you for supporting not only a senior thesis, but a vision that believes history can be rewritten, one garment at a time.